Trump supporter berates Jim Acosta, fires up crowd to boot CNN from Trump's South Carolina rally: 'Get the f--k out of here'

The crowd at President Trump's rally in South Carolina on Monday began chanting "Go home, Jim!" at CNN's Jim Acosta. (Twitter)

Jim was accosted.

As CNN was attempting to set up its television feed for President Trump’s South Carolina rally, a woman launched into a profane verbal attack against reporter Jim Acosta before leading the crowd into chants for the network to pack up and close shop early.

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“I had an elderly woman, just a short while ago, come up to me — and said that we at CNN should get the ‘F’ out of this auditorium at this high school in West Columbia,” Acosta told colleague Wolf Blitzer. “She turned to the crowd and whipped them up into a frenzy, calling on us to leave before President Trump arrives.”

The crowd’s jeers continued throughout the night as Trump was in town to campaign for Gov. Henry McMaster (R-S.C.), who is facing John Warren in a runoff election.